What is this?
Tonk is a London-based startup building tools for a new kind of internet - one that's open, playful, and platform-free. When platform fatigue hit a peak in the early 2020s, we saw an opportunity - to build a new web, powered by frontier cryptography and distributed systems, bigger and more exciting than crypto alone.
We spent two years as a skunkworks, pushing boundaries with games, social apps, and developer tools using ZK proofs and cutting-edge cryptography. Now, we’re laser-focused on launching the Tonk toolchain - our first step toward a freer, better internet.
We’re not your typical tech team: we’re artists, musicians, and dancers committed to building technology that's creative, powerful, and human. We cut our teeth at UC Berkeley, Cambridge University, Airbnb, Epic Games, and successful startups. We're backed by Electric Capital, Bankless Ventures, Entrepreneur First, and leading angels.
